http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/food/2012/04/fiddlehead-ferns-how-dangerous-first-taste-of-spring/ A Heaping Helping of Food News, Science and Culture Wed, 15 May 2013 14:48:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/food/2012/04/fiddlehead-ferns-how-dangerous-first-taste-of-spring/comment-page-1/#comment-15096 tama matsuoka Tue, 10 Apr 2012 11:57:05 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/food/?p=11826#comment-15096 Japanese eat bracken fern, but only in moderation and for a very short time. I wonder whether the creation of the syrup concentrated the properties of the fern. Also most people in North America are consuming the fiddlehead of the ostrich fern which I have never heard to contain the same properties. All the same there are many many more plants that taste better and are more abundant in the spring than fiddleheads! Japanese eat bracken fern, but only in moderation and for a very short time. I wonder whether the creation of the syrup concentrated the properties of the fern. Also most people in North America are consuming the fiddlehead of the ostrich fern which I have never heard to contain the same properties.
All the same there are many many more plants that taste better and are more abundant in the spring than fiddleheads!

]]> http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/food/2012/04/fiddlehead-ferns-how-dangerous-first-taste-of-spring/comment-page-1/#comment-15093 Cheryl Maxwell Mon, 09 Apr 2012 21:00:58 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/food/?p=11826#comment-15093 Fiddle head ferns - like poke salat in the South, have been eaten by folk for years, but may not be a healthy thing to do! Who knows what research will tell us tomarrow about a current not so safe pratice! Fiddle head ferns – like poke salat in the South, have been eaten by folk for years, but may not be a healthy thing to do! Who knows what research will tell us tomarrow about a current not so safe pratice!

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